Buttons randomly not working

[antonio]

I'm having an incredibly frustrating problem with my new XPERIA X10 - the menu, home and back buttons on the bottom are randomly not working. It's driving me nuts.
Any suggestions?

 

[steveng#AC]

Does your XPERIA X10 have a plastc cover?

A colleague of mine had the same problem and here's what we discovered -
The plastic cover that comes with the device creates pressure on the camera key and the 3 front keys don't work when the camera key is held at the same time.
All we needed to do was cut a hole on the case where the camera key is, and the problem vanished ...

 

[antonio]

Wow, that actually worked ;-)
Thanks steveng.